[HN Gopher] Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable
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Show HN: Epstein Files Organized and Searchable
Hey all, Throwaway in case this is assumed to be politcally
motivated. I spent some time organizing the Eptstein files to make
transparency a little clearer. I need to tighten the data for
organizations and people a bit more, but hopeful this is helpful in
research in the interim.
Author : searchepstein
Score : 137 points
Date : 2025-11-14 19:50 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (searchepsteinfiles.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (searchepsteinfiles.com)
| garciasn wrote:
| I would say these are 'tagged'; organized is a bit of a stretch,
| IMO.
|
| This is some sort of searchable index that reminds me a lot of
| what the web was like prior to Google; the Altavista days. It's
| just a jumble of poorly formatted text that isn't really
| contextually aware and is largely useless for the volume of
| textual documents.
|
| Then there's the whole 'I landed on an email that offers the text
| of an email that, I assume, the pertinent information is in the
| attachment listed, of which I cannot easily access.
|
| --
|
| I'd be more interested to see how you enhance this in v2.
| baby_souffle wrote:
| > It's just a jumble of poorly formatted text that isn't really
| contextually aware and is largely useless for the volume of
| textual documents.
|
| I did a quick spot check and the lack of _clear_ date field is
| going to make contextualizing a bit trickier. It looks like
| most of the `email` have them but other types like `report` may
| have an unknown "first, created/circulated internally" date and
| a broader "the public can see it" date.
|
| Nevertheless, it's only a matter of time before this gets
| loaded into a graph DB so the context becomes more apparent
| similar to what the journalists did for the panama papers.
| searchepstein wrote:
| Thanks for your feedback. Agreed it's not perfect and can be
| improved. That said, I wanted to put it out there in case it
| did help someone, even in it's imperfect state.
|
| Marked improvements incoming...
| tacker2000 wrote:
| Great job!
|
| Would be nice if the messages are formatted with just date,
| sender and message and the metadata is hidden in a popup or
| whatever.
| searchepstein wrote:
| Thank you for the feedback.
|
| Unfortunately it's several thousand raw text files, and
| determining a single relevant date, sender and message for each
| file is a bit more complex than I had time for this week. Next
| week we'll make the files more readable, ingest & display the
| images, amongst other usabillity improvements.
| legitster wrote:
| Thanks for putting this together.
|
| The stuff I am coming across in here is WILD.
|
| If you could find a way to make some of this more easily
| searchable/readable/etc. (Minimize headings/convert links/fix
| line breaks etc)
|
| BTW, the chat logs of other parties anonymous, but you can
| clearly tell these are with Steve Bannon:
|
| https://searchepsteinfiles.com/file/text/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025...
| https://searchepsteinfiles.com/file/text/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027...
| searchepstein wrote:
| Nice finds!
|
| Yep, I've had a snoot-full of this project this week - but next
| week I'll start pulling in the images and making improvements.
| Thank you for the feedback!
| berbec wrote:
| Looks great and terrifying, as expected.
| g-b-r wrote:
| This is of course not what they're still trying to get released,
| so what is it based on?
|
| The stuff at https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-
| committee-rele... ?
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